Plenary session and sections – 17. 9. 2025

Viktor Munkácsi 

Dr. Viktor Munkácsi, Head of Incident Management at the Hungarian National Cyber Security Centre. His current areas of expertise are cyber security incident management and cyber security crisis management. Viktor has 30 years of experience in law enforcement. In addition to his knowledge of IT networks, he also has a law degree, and this knowledge and experience has enabled him to lead administrative and technical departments for 20 years, at the Special Servive for National Security Hungary, the organization that operates the National Cybersecurity Center. He participated in the development of Hungary's new cybersecurity legislation, which, in addition to transposing NIS 2, transformed the entire Hungarian cybersecurity organizational system.

Marcin Domagała

Graduate of international relations at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. Between 2007 and 2017, he worked at the Office of Electronic Communications, where he was primarily involved in analysing the Internet access services market and then the postal services market. Since 2019, he has been working in the Cybersecurity Department of the Ministry of Digital Affairs. Since 2022, he has been Head of the International Cooperation Division in the Area of Cybersecurity, which deals primarily with cooperation within the EU, including EU legislation issues, as well as international contacts with non-EU countries in the area of cybersecurity.

Ondřej Polák

Ondřej Polák works as a member of the private sector regulation unit within the regulation department of the National Cyber and Information Security Agency. He participated in the preparation of Czech cyber security legislation, which is based on the NIS2 directive, and he specializes in the energy, food, manufacturing, and space sectors. He studied law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University (Brno). Before joining the National Cyber and Information Security Agency, he worked for six years as an assistant to the judge of the penal division of the Municipal Court in Brno.

Hong Dae-sik

Professor Hong Dae-sik is currently a full-time professor of economic law at Sogang University's Law School and serves as the director of the ICT Law and Economics Research Center. Before joining academia, he served as a judge at various courts, including the Seoul District Court, for 10 years and worked as a member lawyer at Yulchon LLC for about 5 years. He holds a Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws, and Doctor of Laws from Seoul National University, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of London in the UK and UC Berkeley in the USA.

Iana Kazeeva

Iana Kazeeva is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law. She studied international commercial and tax law in Moscow and holds a Candidate of Sciences degree (Ph.D. equivalent) in international financial law (dissertation on fiscal decentralization). Prior to joining the Department, she worked at the Mountain View office of a California-based public software-as-a-service company, primarily engaged in reviewing and negotiating technology and commercial contracts. She also gained practical experience as a senior legal counsel at the legal department of a global producer of mineral fertilizers, focusing on project finance and legal compliance. At the Department, the primary focus of her research is on intellectual property, data security, and data protection law.

Lilla Nóra Kiss, PhD

Lilla Nóra Kiss is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, specialising in international antitrust law and innovation policy. With a PhD in law, she blends academic insight with real-world pragmatism to tackle regulatory challenges. She has been a visiting scholar at George Mason University, a Liberty Bridge Program fellow, and co-founded the FICE working group. Previously, she worked at the Hungarian Ministry of Justice and University of Miskolc.

Matúš Mesarčík

Matúš Mesarčík is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University Bratislava, where he works at the Institute of Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law. During his academic career, he gained experience as an advisor to public authorities and private entities in the field of personal data protection law and digital regulation. He holds a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree in law from Comenius University Bratislava and an LL.M in Law and Technology from Tilburg University in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 2025, he completed a research stay at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. His research focuses mainly on the regulation of artificial intelligence, personal data protection, the legal regulation of digital services and the intersection of technology with democracy and the rule of law.